"Busy Year" is a very ceremonial activity in the countryside. As the pace of the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, people go to the big market, prepare New Year's goods, cook New Year's dishes, and play social fire, and the strong New Year's flavor spreads from these rituals.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, five or six neighbors came to Wang Suxia's house as promised, and the courtyard was suddenly lively. Boil water, steam steamed buns, heat oil, fry twist flowers, mix meat, make chowder meatballs, ......Wang Suxia, secretary of the Zhongyi Village branch of Xigongyi Town, made an appointment with her neighborhood friends to cook New Year's dishes at home a year ago. "It's very lonely to do it alone, and everyone is lively together. ”
As one of the most important symbols of the Chinese New Year, meatballs are not only a delicacy, but also contain a beautiful symbolic meaning. The old-fashioned stoves and steamers have not been abandoned because of age, but have flourished every year to welcome the New Year.
Now this kind of is quite rare, the meatballs made by the steamer are more fragrant, and they smell the fragrance from afar. Wang Lihong, a villager from Zhongyi Village who came to help, smiled, "I'm very happy, the feelings of the villagers." ”
The housewives are busy mixing noodles, kneading, and stuffing, and the steaming work is assigned to the male host, and the bellows are full, and in about 40 minutes, the hot steamed buns, chowder, and meatballs are fragrant.
It's almost the New Year, and I also mailed some to my child, so that I can taste the old taste of my hometown, and I hope he will say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year in the authentic hometown New Year's food. Wang Lihong told reporters that her son will not come back for the New Year this year, but he is always thinking about the New Year's food in his hometown.
The most traditional folk customs, the most authentic New Year's flavor. Or salty, fresh and delicious, or sweet and mellow, delicate and tenacious hometown New Year's dishes in the days of family reunion, let people eat a strong reunion feeling.
The courtyard is full of laughter and joy; The gongs and drums outside the hospital are noisy and lively.
At present, the social fire performance in Xigongyi Town is in full swing rehearsal, and the members of the social fire team are gearing up and riveting their energy, ready to show their skills in the city's Lantern Festival social fire performance in 2024.
I think the drum is very imposing, lively and festive, and it also enriches our lives. Wang Yanlong, a villager in Heban Village, Xigongyi Town, gave his "three nods of the phoenix" to show the momentum of the Northwest people.
The members of the lion dance are not far behind, in the standing, running, rolling and jumping, sometimes mighty and brave, majestic and majestic, sometimes frolicking and joyful, funny and witty.
Xigong Lion Dance is a beautiful business card of traditional folk performances in the whole region, which has been publicized and reported by the mainstream of provinces and cities for many times, and is loved by the masses. Speaking of the "lion dance", Yao Jianfeng, the captain of the lion dance team, was full of pride, "Since the fifteenth day of the lunar month, we have been rehearsing the ground lions, and we will join the rehearsals of the high-pole lions and high-pile lions later, presenting you with the most thrilling and difficult performances." ”
The dragon dance is a symbol of the Chinese spirit, it embodies the spirit of the Chinese nation, and contains the cultural connotation of harmony between heaven and man, and benefits mankind.
Ma Limin, director of the Cultural Tourism Service Center of Xigongyi Town and head of the social fire team, paid close attention to the stage effect and guided the expressions and movements of the team members. The number of participants is about 300 people, including the ribbon dragon team, the big drum team, the Taiping drum team, the colorful flag team, the lion dance team and other teams, the lineup is very strong. Next, we will seize the time to rehearse and dedicate a wonderful 'intangible cultural heritage social fire culture feast' to the people of the city. ”
The hearty and fragrant hometown New Year's dishes, and the intangible cultural heritage society ...... full of cultural flavorThis Spring Festival, the rural culture of the land of Longzhong is full of vitality in the sense of ritual of the busy year.
Reporter Zhang Jianping of Dingxi Rong ** Center.
Li Huijuan, Zhang Guanjie.